From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36937: 26.1; Sending mails doesn't set From: correctly Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:19:46 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87pnljijap.fsf@gnus.jao.io> <87y307xuo6.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="129290"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" , 36937@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sven Joachim Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 06 09:21:13 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hutmS-000XRd-1j for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 09:21:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59440 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hutmQ-0004nz-H6 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41347) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hutmL-0004jh-18 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hutmJ-0003Hq-Vg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:55785) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hutmJ-0003HW-Rp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:21:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hutmI-0005aU-EX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:21:03 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 07:21:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36937 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 36937-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36937.156507600521396 (code B ref 36937); Tue, 06 Aug 2019 07:21:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36937) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Aug 2019 07:20:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36373 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hutlK-0005Yz-Rc for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:20:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:7793) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hutlI-0005YQ-B8 for 36937@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2019 03:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id B21C9100A37; Tue, 6 Aug 2019 03:19:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg1.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 3A29B1009EE; Tue, 6 Aug 2019 03:19:49 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1565075989; bh=Z+ktP9HHunSymvHxG2NdFxeJ/J4KZe0lNrH0aKWeU2k=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=X7f441nmkPmIooFZX5ToEJwFGbnc03ZfTNbPsD4LPF6rwydw3iyWUICYRgOGqzkyq TT4UbXbh9ZioMYRaH3NE+gsb/Mc3h0DHWF5JhiwvBcMI4/yIPB1iVDZGXIwZClHSfY d3m+3at6C9oRHtJTXuGn6OfDmQenb63XbibXKQZV2gqjEn9VrkB1IqA2Sj/IoGKdHL irWzdu+XnEiCqd9Sej9Uv0hN8VZspL0oPureKPxYi25SYGXeelUUbxvrSwEhm4cjE7 BCAB/xsM/fPw/zSTF5+b2j5EySKBcXD8FUhnKv06UKhhLWinPu4KQPUtjt3HaeM9EI sdPhUMA0pbCKg== Original-Received: from alfajor (unknown [78.192.50.77]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 80EB4120C9D; Tue, 6 Aug 2019 03:19:48 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87y307xuo6.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (Sven Joachim's message of "Mon, 05 Aug 2019 21:46:01 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:164668 Archived-At: Sven Joachim writes: > notfound 36937 26.1 > found 36937 27.0.50 > thanks > > On 2019-08-05 19:00 +0100, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote: > >> This problem started happening in builds from master around 4 days ago: >> >> - start emacs -Q >> - M-x mail (or any other form of sending email) >> - Set a From: value different from user@localhostname >> - Send mail using local sendmail >> >> The mail is sent with a from header seen by postfix (i don't know about >> other MTAs) as user@localhost, instead of the From: i set in the >> headers. By user@localhost i mean the unix username running emacs and >> the hostname as returned by hostname(1). It seems emacs is just >> ignoring the value of From:, or setting it in a way postfix doesn't >> understand. >> >> I know almost for sure it's an emacs problem because emacs 26 or an >> earlier version of emacs-snapshot is working without problems. > > Confirmed here, although it did not prevent me personally from sending > mail, since I had already set up postfix to rewrite such > user@localhostname addresses back. > > Reverting commit 3a59cc840693 (" * lisp/gnus/message.el: Reduce > redundancy with send-mail-function") fixed the problem. It looks like > this commit changed some important options and looks NEWS-worthy. It is not supposed to change anything important, so this is just a bug. The weird thing is that `M-x mail` doesn't use message-mode, so it should (in theory) be unaffected by my patch which only touches message.el. Practice proves the theory wrong, tho. Stefan